Mike Stevens
Western United States & Canada Division Director
Seattle, Washington
Mike Stevens Mike serves as The Nature Conservancy’s Western United States & Canada Division Director. © Mike Stevens/TNC
Areas of Expertise
Conservation, Philanthropy, Policy, Indigenous Right Relations, Team and Culture Management
Biography
Mike Stevens serves as The Nature Conservancy's Division Director for the Western United States and Canada, leading a team of more than 500 staff working across Canada and 11 U.S. states, including Alaska, to address climate change and build a sustainable future for people and nature.
Over the past 25 years, Mike has worked in a range of conservation leadership roles and has been part of multiple teams and coalitions recognized for their innovation and impact. He is committed to supporting a diverse and talented next generation of conservation leaders and building an inclusive and powerful environmental movement. He is deeply committed to growing and sustaining culture, people and teams.
Before his role as division director, Mike served as TNC’s Washington state director for more than a decade. During this time, he and his colleagues supported and led coalitions that helped enact into law one of the world’s most robust and equitable climate policy and funding frameworks.
Mike’s professional experience includes being president of Lava Lake Land & Livestock in Idaho, a company that received multiple national awards for their work and partnership-building in landscape-scale conservation, sustainable agriculture and coexistence with wolves. Early in his career, Mike spent five years with TNC in New Hampshire and Idaho as a scientist and preserve manager, respectively, and he worked as a field scientist and mountaineering and natural history instructor in the western U.S. and Alaska.
Mike holds an M.S. from the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont, where he was a Switzer Environmental Fellow, and a B.A. in biology from Middlebury College.
Mike lives in Seattle. He was born and grew up in Mallorca, Spain, is fluent in Spanish and has worked and traveled globally. He is passionate about time with family and friends, growing food, reading, birding, and skiing and running in the mountains.
Collaborating for Conservation Across the Western U.S. and Canada
Across 11 Western U.S. states and Canada, The Nature Conservancy is committed to large-scale conservation impact through deep collaboration, on-the-ground work and policy.